Jakarta – The number of Indonesian health care employees who have gotten COVID-19 vaccine shots so far has actually reached 1,017,186, according to data provided by the COVID-19 Handling Job Force on Thursday afternoon.
The number of employees immunized versus COVID-19 increased by 47,640 on Thursday compared to the previous day, it reported.
Of the 1,017,186 individuals who have received the first dosage of the COVID-19 vaccine, 345,605 people have actually been administered their second dose, a boost of 66,354 people compared to Wednesday (February 10, 2021), according to the task force.
In its preliminary phase, the vaccination program is targeting an overall of 1,468,764 healthcare workers.
The government has set a target of inoculating 181,554,464 individuals, or 70 percent of the total population of Indonesia, with the aim of building herd resistance against the coronavirus.
The next concern targets of the vaccination program are civil service officers, including authorities and military personnel.
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Each person covered by the vaccine program requires to be administered two dosages of the COVID-19 vaccine. This indicates that Indonesia requirements 362 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for 181 million people.
To speed up the vaccination procedure, the Ministry of Health is working together with the TNI (Indonesian Defense Forces) and Polri (Indonesian Authorities) to perform vaccinations and contact-tracing.
On The Other Hand, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has actually highlighted the dual techniques of surveillance and vaccination applied by his ministry to win the fight versus the coronavirus pandemic.
” The first method is security. How we understand where the opponent is and where they are moving. In the past, they tracked them utilizing interrogation strategies, and now, they utilize screening and tracing techniques,” Sadikin explained here on Thursday.
Based on the Health Ministry’s computations, 30 tracers per 100 thousand people are required for the tracing procedure, and they need to be released in every village. Indonesia requires a total of 80 thousand tracers to meet its target of vaccinating around 181 million individuals.
” For Indonesia’s population, roughly 80 thousand tracers are needed throughout all villages. We do not have such device, and only the Authorities and the TNI have it,” Sadikin pointed out.
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